The Metaphysical Sectarian

HE was in Logick a great Critick, Profoundly skill'd in Analytick. He could distinguish, and divide A Hair 'twixt South and South-West side: On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove by force Of Argument, a Man's no Horse. He'd prove a Buzard is no Fowl, And that a Lord may be an Owl; A Calf an Alderman, a Goose a Justice, And Rooks Committee-men and Trustees. He'd run in Debt by Disputation, And pay with Ratiocination. All this by Syllogism, true In Mood and Figure, he would ...

Sonnets On Miss Savage

iShe was too kind, wooed too persistently,Wrote moving letters to me day by day;The more she wrote, the more unmoved was I,The more she gave, the less could I repay.Therefore I grieve, not that I was not loved,But that, being loved, I could not love again.I liked, but like and love are far removed;Hard though I tried to love I tried in vain.